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It is such a wild -- or if you want to be positive -- innovative idea [that] I can understand the skepticism.

Harry Relkin, New Mexico's land office counsel, referring to the state's effort to build a fabricated town filled with schools, roads, airports and malls -- but no residents -- for city planning purposes. "The Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation" will be the largest scale testing center on Earth.

Harry Relkin, New Mexico's land office counsel, referring to the state's effort to build a fabricated town filled with schools, roads, airports and malls -- but no residents -- for city planning purposes. "The Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation" will be the largest scale testing center on Earth.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.